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Top Headline, August 14th, 2015
2015-08-14
Excerpt from The Arizona Republic (8/13/15): “How utterly fitting. Corporation Commissioner wants to limit public’s access to public’s business” For months, the Checks and Balances Project has been trying to get a look at Commissioner Bob Stump’s text messages sent on his commission-supplied phone during the 2014 campaign season. Specifically, it’s interested in what Stump was… Read more »
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Watchdog group narrows list of Stump text requests – Arizona Republic
2015-08-10
Excerpt from The Arizona Republic (8/7/15): “Watchdog group narrows list of Stump text requests”: The updated request from Checks and Balances “identified the text messages it most wants to review. It includes phone numbers tied to current members of the commission and key figures who have worked with APS or “dark money” groups that have worked… Read more »
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C&BP Investigation Covered on NBC 12 Sunday Square Off
2015-07-27
This weekend, Arizona’s NBC News 12 tackled the latest news in our investigation of Bob Stump and the Arizona Corporation Commission. Part 1: [brightcove vid=4373474492001&exp3=3988559254001&surl=http://c.brightcove.com/services&pubid=AQ~~,AAADoDT064k~,u5nUPUWuDCDdadTV9CfJQ5dVLN-wezkF&w=468&h=412] Part 2: [brightcove vid=4373474469001&exp3=3988559254001&surl=http://c.brightcove.com/services&pubid=AQ~~,AAADoDT064k~,u5nUPUWuDCDdadTV9CfJQ5dVLN-wezkF&w=468&h=412]
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Top Headline, July 24, 2015
2015-07-24
Excerpt from The Arizona Republic (7/23/15): “Which GOP genius tried to make a lawyer look bad?” The Arizona Republican Party… has released one of those ominous-sounding, personally stigmatizing hit-piece videos attacking Barr as a front man for a Washington-based clean-energy group called the Checks and Balances Project. Checks and Balances is the group seeking to uncover text messages sent… Read more »
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Top Headlines, July 23rd, 2015
2015-07-23
Excerpt from The Arizona Republic (7/22/15): “Arizona GOP runs interference for Bob Stump … and APS?”  Clearly, Arizona Public Service must be worried. Which means that the Arizona Corporation Commission must be worried. Which means that the Arizona Republican Party is up nights … really, really worried. Thus comes the state GOP’s campaign to discredit those who are nosing… Read more »
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Top Headlines, July 22nd, 2015
2015-07-22
Excerpt from The Arizona Republic (7/21/15): “Arizona utility regulator Bob Stump’s phone seized in probe of former Commissioner Gary Pierce” The investigation of current Commissioner Bob Stump and the text messages he sent to Arizona Public Service Co., political groups and candidates for the commission has collided with an investigation of former Commissioner Gary Pierce……. Read more »
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Checks and Balances Project Welcomes New Senior Fellow Evlondo Cooper
2015-07-21
My name is Evlondo Cooper and I’d like to introduce myself as Check and Balances’ new senior fellow. Checks and Balances Project provides an invaluable service by demanding transparency and accountability around issues such as the environment, clean energy and public health. These are issues I care about deeply. As a former Orleans Parish criminal… Read more »
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Top Headlines, July 17th, 2015
2015-07-17
Excerpt From The Arizona Republic (7/15/15): “Timeline: Utility regulator text debate” “March 2015: Through the state public records law, the Checks and Balances Project, a Washington, D.C.-area watchdog group, requests text messages Stump sent as far back as 2013. April 2015: The Corporation Commission responds to Checks and Balances Project saying the texts are not available…. Read more »
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Corporation commissioner destroyed text messages, group told
2015-06-22
This article by Howard Fischer was published in the Arizona Daily Star June 19th, 2015. PHOENIX — A watchdog group has been told it can’t examine state Corporation Commissioner Bob Stump’s text messages because they were deleted and the phone used to send and receive them was destroyed. The texts in question are believed to be… Read more »
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